Elie Wiesel explains how he chose to write his memoir, Night. In the preface, he begins to explain why he chose to write this book by saying that he only wants to write one book in his lifetime, and this book is called Night. Many people say that he survived the holocaust because he was meant to write this book. Wiesel himself does not know what the outcome of his words will be. Is it to make him go mad so he can understand the madness of humanity? Is it to make sure that the terrible tragedy will never happen again? He does not know why he survived when millions of people who did not deserve to die died. Wiesel only knew that his survival meant that he had to write this book so that people could know what almost happened when the entire Jewish race almost became extinct. Elie Wiesel’s outcome of his words touched many people and became one of the greatest authors of all-time.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Kristallnacht- Nazi held these anti-Jewish riots against the Jewish community in Germany. It happened 71 years ago, November9-10, 1938.
15 high-ranking Nazi party and German government officials attended the conference. The Final Solution- was a codename for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of all the European Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
1) Closed ghettos
2)Open ghettos
3)Destruction ghettos
Most of them were located in the cities of Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Vilna, Kovno, and Minsk.
Their purpose was to separate Jewish communities, andmake it so that they could control and segregate them.
Conditions of the ghettos were terrible, most of the people were murdered, or died of disease, they were crowded, they had terrible sanitary conditions, and severe winter weather.
The US, the Soviets, and the British liberated these camps.
Hitler as well as two other German leaders committed suicide.
24 defendants were charged, they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
The IMT decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense of criminal acts.
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Moishe the Beatle Moishe the Beatle Invisible and likeable Singing, crying, and begging Eyes as dreamy as the moon and stories as crazy as a mad man’s A soul of the dead Shouting At the houses of the ghettos
Table of Contents
Anika S. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
History Chosen to be RecordedElie Wiesel explains how he chose to write his memoir, Night. In the preface, he begins to explain why he chose to write this book by saying that he only wants to write one book in his lifetime, and this book is called Night. Many people say that he survived the holocaust because he was meant to write this book. Wiesel himself does not know what the outcome of his words will be. Is it to make him go mad so he can understand the madness of humanity? Is it to make sure that the terrible tragedy will never happen again? He does not know why he survived when millions of people who did not deserve to die died. Wiesel only knew that his survival meant that he had to write this book so that people could know what almost happened when the entire Jewish race almost became extinct. Elie Wiesel’s outcome of his words touched many people and became one of the greatest authors of all-time.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
1)Music
2)Film
3)Literature
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
15 high-ranking Nazi party and German government officials attended the conference.
The Final Solution- was a codename for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of all the European Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The Nazis sought to exterminate all of these groups because they felt that their race was superior, and others were inferior.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
2)Open ghettos
3)Destruction ghettos
Most of them were located in the cities of Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Vilna, Kovno, and Minsk.
Their purpose was to separate Jewish communities, andmake it so that they could control and segregate them.
Conditions of the ghettos were terrible, most of the people were murdered, or died of disease, they were crowded, they had terrible sanitary conditions, and severe winter weather.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Extermination Camps were built to murder people.
Jews and other races were murdered by asphyxiation with poison gas, or by shooting.
The conditions were terrible, about 6,000 jews died everyday, the Nazis would take their valuables before they murdered them.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Hitler as well as two other German leaders committed suicide.
24 defendants were charged, they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
The IMT decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense of criminal acts.
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Moishe the Beatle
Moishe the Beatle
Invisible and likeable
Singing, crying, and begging
Eyes as dreamy as the moon and stories as crazy as a mad man’s
A soul of the dead
Shouting
At the houses of the ghettos